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l UNITED -STATESA PATENT OFFICS. l

ALVINZE VVHITED, OF TROY, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO HOLMES & IDE, OF

i SAME IJLAGE.

METHOD OF MAKING CUFFS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 378.032, dated February 14, 1888.

Application tiled August 1884. Serial No. 139,992. (No model.)

' T0 all whom, it may concern:

ject their improvement in finish and a'better f arrangement and connection of their parts.

My inventionis an improved method ofuniting and completing apparel-cuffs; and it con sists in uniting a full-width facing with one or more full-width plies and two part or half facings, the last elements being longitudinally united in the middle of the cuff and made ofI unequal transverse widths, in order that a hem muay be laid in the edge overlapping the edgev or the other part facing, the said parts of the cuff being superimposed, as will be described subsequentl`y,l then border-sewed to connect them, and turned through the opening between v the adjacently-placed inner edges of the two part facings, with the lapping edges of the latter longitudinally sewed to each other and to and through the plyand full-width facing after being thus turned, and a bead on the edge of the cuff made in the full-width facing.

`Accompanying this specification, to form a part of it, there is a sheet of drawings containing ve guresillustrating my invention, with the same designation of its parts by letter-reference used in all of them. A 4

Of the illustrations, Figure l shows that part of the two part facings that is felled or hemmed cuitsinner edge. Fig. 2 is a section of Fig. 1, taken on the line x x of that figure. Fig. 3 shows the blanks as superimposed prepara'- tory to border-stitching them. Fig. 4. shows the completed cuff, and Fig. 5 a section of the latter taken on the line x2 :v2 of Fig. 4.

The letter H designates a hemmed or felled or beaded edge formed on one of the two part facings, f 2, where it overlaps in the completed cuff the inner edge of the part facingf.

The letter S designates a row of border stitching made to connect the said parts when laid wrong-side out, as shownat Fig. 3, the plies P and l?2 being at the bottom, next above the plies the full-width facing F, and above the latter, side by side, the two part facings and f2.

The letter S2 designates a line of stitching by which the overlapping hemmed or felled edge H of the two part facings is united to the underlapping edge of the other part facing through the plies and ful1-width facing F, and the letter Bindicates a beaded edge formed around the cuff.

The hemmed or felled edge being produced uponthe part facing f2, the blanks-are laid as shown at Fig. 3, border-sewed at S', andthen turned out through the opening between the two part facings. The edge fold of the cuff is made in the facing F, and so as to be outside of the union of the 'parts at S', by drawing in toward each other where lapping the two part faeings ffz, and so as to make the facing produced by the union of the latter narrower than the facing F, and as a'sequence producing the beaded edge B. As thus made, a good finish is given to the cuff, and the process steps by which the parts are connected are simple ones. process steps have been employed in the production of collars wherein an upper thicker part and a lower thinner part are divided-by a projecting fly edge; but in my improved cui the projecting hemmed or folded edge is produced in a different manner and for a different purpose. l

I am also aware thatan apparal-cuff has been made of two or more thicknesses of material having an outside blank of a single piece provided with a central plait, in which is a turning-slit, through which the cuff, after being run along allitsedges, is turned right-side out, and the plait then sewed down to the cuff, and, further, that a cuff has been made with a facing through the center of which a box-plait is formed and opened out'and folded, and two half-blanks stitched to the cuff, with their inner and adjacent edges laid underV the box- 8o I am well aware that similar loov plait and secured by lines of stitches, a. turning-slit being cut in the ply-blank near one of its edges.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent` is- The meth od herein described for uniting and completing an apparel-cuff, which consists in cutting from the fabric two half-facings, j" f 2, of unequal transverse widths, then sewing a border-hem, H, in the straight inner edge of then wider part facing, then disposing a fullforni facing, F, between ply-forrns 1?1?2 and the two part facings ff2, the said two part facings being lapped at the longitudinal middle of the cuff, with the hemmed edge on the Outside, then securing all the parts together ALVINZE WHITED.

Witnesses:

CHARLES S. BRINTNALL, CHARLES G. EDDY. 

